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Show .. of W~tr ~tnd Pt~t(t gably hinder. Sopater hath a p~ace appo.: fite to this matter, where he iatth , '! hat part ofjuftice, whrch reductth ~ontrails to equality, wholly refufeth a// k.fnd offa' VOHr; but that part whtch is conver[ant a. hout offences doth not difdain the bJnd and ·tCujus re.nfus amiable ·coununance of the Graces t. parteftn• pno-f. Now thefe three things may occur, either rem tc ex pre - . fl... • ll b lit Cicero ad that punuument IS by a means to e QJr. 1. ~. exa&ed , as in wkkedneffes of the wodl: Via juris tjuf- example f ; or, that it is by no means to ~ntld• tfl.quJ·b be exa&ed, as when the publick oood bufd•m rn rt us . . . d h ~ . ,.1 nihiL fit foci requtres ~t to be 01~me ; or, .t :tt It.~~ r,rati~: Pofte- lawfull etther to otntt to exaCt tt; wht .. ri<?rem fie ther pertains that of Seneca , Clemency D10nP~u£a:en- hath free chorce, A wile man then, fay fts oratwne ad . k · · ,r, · r. h Alexandri- the Stole s. parctt non .'t':oJ~·tt; 1paret , nos; Boni pr<f- doth not pardon. As 1f foriooth 1t were ftdts e(l,ignof not b vvfull for us, with the common peoccrt. Fa~?r;no ple the m1£lers of fpeech , to call that to ta qllte du1tur 1 h' l ll Jj T 1 ctemmtia t~pud parMn, w tcb t :ey ca to p~re. ru y, homintu(i tt.m· both here and ell where, as Ctcero, G11len, pcftivartlaxa- and other~ have nored , a great part of tiodc [ummo Stoical difpJ,Ira,tions is fpent about words; 1t"Jroe1.re p 11 : Pa r- which a Philqfopher iliould principalhly rJctdium & nil- take heed of ~. After a penal Law , t e turam&vita"' difficulry feems greater; becauie ~he au., b:1"',t!Zam vi~: thor of a Law is in [orne fort bound by his tat,rta r~t quud own Laws . but thts is true fo far as th~ non punr,at & ' . I'. ' ipj1 in nau4r1m Author of a ~a w 1s con11dered as a part pecut. Clemt11tittm libtr{m ha~ere ~trb#ri(lm, Sen. lf Vcriffime dixit fc;rip· Jor ad Herenni~m; VititJ{um t{i contro"..trjiam intendere fttJpter ns: minum mutationlm. L. :l, quod Ariftoreles d~xerat 1 M,,p~n~• H ~' To ,of(91 J)~~~~>'~· np. 1-4, · · The fetontl of ~he Commonwe;tlth, not as he fuA:ei?s the perfon and authority th~reof, For m , . . this later refpeCl:, he may take away cve'n-a whole Law; beca.ufe t~e nature ~f a human Law is, to depend upon the Wlll of man not in its original only, but alfo in dura;ion. Howbeit, the Author of the Law ouoht not to take away a Law ,ex- ~ept upgn [orne approvable caufe: ot~er-wiie" he will tranfgrefs the rules of JUG: 347. f J Goverrnent. Now' as he may totally take away a Law ' fe may he unty the bond thereof ' as to a perfon .or fingular f: Cl: the Law remaining firm mother re~ frea's; and this after th~ exa~ple of God hirnfelf, who as Lacrantuu fat~h, when he gave the L~tw, deprived not ~~mfelf of all power, but hath referved a !tberty to par- t Symmachus aon And eAt1jlin faith, The Emperour Hb.3.epHl.fiJ. 'nJaj r~vgk.J his fcntenCI t , lftnd ab[o/ve a Ali.atnim~flco. a guilty of' death and pardon hiWJ : he dmtJ magJ~ra .. rn n 'J • ' . b r. He is tuum 3 'fURl lim ~xprdfeth a .reaton for It: er;auJ~ . . mrupt~ vidtl· not fubjecr to the Laws, who hath tt tn hu tur t.!Jef~nten- . power to mak! J-~ws, .Senec~J would have ti•, fi.ft.nt Itt'· 1\T. think this : No man at all can put b~s "'!tltJrtJ; ~.vero . d IJ/Jadwarum ~tny one to death ttgd.tnft Law;an n~ man, Principrem po.. heftde my {elf, can Jave any. But thts alfo tt~as, quos dd· is not to be done , unlefs there be good cet acrimoni4nJ r~afon for it. And what ~re good reafons, ft~trijuris ilf~ hongh it cannot be prectfely defined, yet Jl~fca tr_t. Id:m " "T • h b d1 crunen JR• fhis is (:ertam ' they oug t to e greater ter Rcgem Be after the Law, than thole that were con- Judicem d!: fiderd before the Law: becaufe the autho- apucl, Thcnl~ritv of the Law. which to be kept is f\ium OJ :u:. 1,) · ., · · · ~ · · profi-_ · |